The second Italian red for night was a 2008 Palazzo Della Torre.
The nose on this wine was milder in intensity than the Salcheto but was an interesting mix of peat, pine needles, vanilla bean and caramel aromas. Tasting the wine, lots of different fruit flavours were to be found such as watermelon, cherry, raspberry and over-ripe strawberry. The structure on this wine was lovely as it was incredibly smooth as the tannin and acidity were in perfect harmony with each other. The wine was very dainty and at times got lot against the richness of the food and ended up being a better wine on its own than with the food.
Here is the group rating for the wine - Mick – 89, Mark - 87, Kathy – 89, Amy – 87, Overall – 88.
There was no LCBO information on this wine; a quick web search put this in the $20 range which is a good value for a wine this good.
2 comments:
Odd ... I bought it at the LCBO at 53 and 20 for $25ish.
The LCBO inventory system has been goofy the last couple of weeks... do a search for something, it doesn't exist - do that search again a few days later and it is suddenly there. I suspect they are doing some year end maintenance on their inventory databases.
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